Hilton launches a rare non-European Amex hotel cashback offer

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• Jon says:

  5 Jun5 June 04:38

  Re the Hilton/Amex offer, I have it on my BA Amex and saw this in the T&Cs:

  “Offer only applies to spend settled in Great British Pound (GBP) on the Card to which the offer is saved.”

  I may be confusing myself, but wouldn’t this imply you have to accept dynamic currency conversion, and have the hotel bill you in GBP rather than local currency (with usually about a 5% hit on the exchange rate)?

  • Andrew J says:

    5 Jun5 June 06:35

    Dynamic currency conversion is not possible on Amex – only Visa and MasterCard. What that line means is that your statement needs to be settled in GBP, not the transaction.

  • Vit says:

    5 Jun5 June 08:17

    Was it pre-paid online?

    • Tetly1967 says:

      5 Jun5 June 18:16

      Yes!

      • Vit says:

        5 Jun5 June 20:44

        Thank you. Will need the usual HKG and BKK hotel towards end of the year I guess will give pre-paid a shot!

      • John says:

        5 Jun5 June 22:54

        Conrad HK tends not to take prepaid rates until close to the stay, if they do at all

  • Jon says:

    5 Jun5 June 12:31

    Thanks all, good to know. Odd line to have in the T&Cs – sounds like a behind-the-scenes operational thing. If they only make the offer available to GBP cards then it’s redundant, surely? Oh well 😉

    Seperately, I’ve sure I’ve had hotels offer me DCC when I’ve paid by Amex in the past, but perhaps I’m misremembering – I know to always decline it regardless 😉

    • John says:

      5 Jun5 June 22:53

      The hotel staff may not have known DCC is unavailable on Amex

    • John says:

      5 Jun5 June 22:55

      and it’s probably just standard wording… there might be similar offers on other countries’ Amexes too

• Michael C says:

  5 Jun5 June 05:03

  Wow, one that works out – that’s so unlike me!
  On my BAPP and OH’s Plat, and 2 of the hotels on the list were already booked for July.
  Thanks as always for highlighting!

• Rob says:

  5 Jun5 June 07:23

  Yes. Remember 8th July is potential cut off date to stay to earn stamps though.

• whiskerxx says:

  5 Jun5 June 07:37

  Hilton offer is book and pre pay by 13th September, not stay by 13th September – is that correct?

  • Rob says:

    5 Jun5 June 08:21

    Rules are book and stay because the rules say prepay is excluded ….

    • whiskerxx says:

      5 Jun5 June 08:51

      But the article says:
      “Pre-paid bookings usually count despite the terms and conditions saying otherwise.”

      • Rob says:

        5 Jun5 June 09:10

        Yes, they probably will. What do you want me to say? Do you want me to personally pay you the £50 if it doesn’t work? The rules are the rules but the reality is often different.

• LittleNick says:

  5 Jun5 June 07:49

  Any update on Oman Air joining OneWorld? Gone a bit quiet

  • Rhys says:

    5 Jun5 June 08:32

    Due by the end of the year last I heard.

    • LittleNick says:

      5 Jun5 June 08:44

      Hope it still goes ahead even with a smaller route network

      • Rhys says:

        5 Jun5 June 08:48

        The CEO was talking about it literally 2 days ago at the IATA AGM so I think it will 🙂

• Tracey says:

  5 Jun5 June 08:07

  Can you redeem ElAl flights, with a virgin codeshare, using Virgin points?

  • Rob says:

    5 Jun5 June 08:20

    No

• conspicuous-capybara says:

  5 Jun5 June 09:37

  I wonder if the SAS codeshare will open up some interesting opportunities for cheaper ex-Scandi cash flights (and maybe redemption tax savings) given that OSL, ARN, and the likes have been the sources of many a bargain in the past.

• Paul says:

  5 Jun5 June 09:39

  What does deeper integration actually mean? The idea you could talk to a BA checkin agent and they’d have a clue about Fiji airways frequent flyer programme or any of the other one world airlines is risible.
  One example is the highly complex area of round the world ticketing which despite 20 years of one world is still a black art!
  And in disruption just try getting BA to rebook you onto a world carrier. These alliances are there only to drive up fares and limit choice

  • ADS says:

    5 Jun5 June 11:21

    I had a BA flight to Dublin cancelled a couple of months ago … and they couldn’t even book me any of the many Aer Lingus flights!

    • Nick says:

      5 Jun5 June 12:28

      BA took away the ability for front-desk agents to reticket a few years ago, other than a tiny number at flight connections T5 airside. But there’s a back-office team that will do it, and can (and do) book on any of the 150+ airlines with interline agreements. If you’re disrupted, ask the desk agent to call ARC and they’ll rebook you.

      • LittleNick says:

        5 Jun5 June 17:17

        When did this happen? Would it not be better for some of them to have the ability to re-ticket?

  • redsails says:

    5 Jun5 June 20:26

    A few years ago my flight from Belfast City was severely delayed by fog so bad that we were bussed to Aldergrove to get the flight to London. When I arrived at T5 the flight connections team had an envelope ready with a hotel booking, airport bus passes, food voucher and a boarding pass for the 11am ish flight to HKG on CX. So they can do it. Two years ago my flight from Mumbai was delayed so I missed the last flight to Belfast. They had me rebooked next day onto the first flight to Belfast while I was still in the air. Picked up a voucher from the rebooking desk at T5 and spent the night at the Sofitel.

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